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Interesting facts about sports In addition, sport has written some of the most beautiful life stories that are a role model for many of us. The emotion that sport evokes in people is hard to describe, but the love we feel for it is amazing. Often the sport was tried to be politicized, but things quickly came to light. The situation is similar with cheating, which is very common in sports, but unprofitable in the long run. Just one example is Lance Armstrong, one of the world’s greatest cyclists and multiple Tour de France winner who admitted to using doping and was stripped of all medals. The fact is a lot, from the happy ones, to the interesting and amazing ones, but also the sad ones. Let's go in order: 1. The first Winter Olympics were held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. 2. An Olympic gold medal is not made of gold. Gold is in a certain percentage of the medal. The last Olympic medal made of pure gold was awarded back in 1912. 3. Yellow tennis balls started to be used only in 1986 to increase visibility for television cameras. 4. Do you know which sport has the most registered members? Believe it or not - fishing. 5. And what is the most watched sport in the world? You guessed it, football. 6. Boxing was considered very brutal in its beginnings. With the change of rules, the safety of fighters also increased and it was legalized in 1901. 7. A hunting license is held by more than 100 million people from all over the world. 8. Jean Genevieve Garnerin is the first woman parachutist, she jumped from a balloon in 1799. 9. Muhammad Ali, one of the most famous boxers of all time, started playing this sport when he was 12 years old. After his bicycle was stolen, the police officer he complained to told him to harden up and enroll in boxing. He obeyed him, the rest is history. 10. Golf got its name from the abbreviation of the word "Gentlemen Only - Ladies Forbidden" which means "only for gentlemen, ladies are forbidden". The sport originated in Scotland, and at that time women were forbidden to play. 11. Poland’s Stella Walsh (Stanislawa Walasiewicz), who won a gold medal in the 100-meter dash at the 1932 Olympics, was the first woman to run that distance in less than 12 seconds. In 1980, she was killed in an attempted robbery and then the police discovered that she was actually a man. 12. Do you know who is officially the best footballer of all time? His name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, and he scored 1281 goals in 1363 games. He is known by the nickname Pele. 13. One of the oldest sports in the world is equestrian racing. The first competitions in this sport were held 6,500 years ago, and even then the results of the races were recorded. 14. The first 4 moves in chess can be played in 318,979,564,000 ways (three hundred and eighteen billion nine hundred and seventy-nine million five hundred and sixty-four thousand ways). 15. The first official basketball game was played on January 20, 1892. 16. In 1988, Steffi Graf won all four Grand Slam tournaments and gold at the Olympic Games. Impressive season. 17. The French national football team won the World Cup in 1998, and did not score a single goal at the next World Cup in Japan and South Korea four years later. Let us remind you, France defeated Croatia in the semifinals of the World Cup, which in the end won the historic bronze. 18. A table tennis ball, although small and light, can reach speeds of up to 105 kilometers per hour.